MDM and SOA: Be Warned! offers a motive for using Master Data Management (MDM), presents typical variants for possible MDM architecture concepts, and illustrates the interplay of MDM and SOA.

Event-Driven SOA questions whether real companies and their business transactions are more event-driven than service-driven, and looks at the confluence of EDA and SOA.

Those interested in IT governance as it relates to SOA and enterprise architecture will want to check out SOA Governance Through Enterprise Architecture, a new article by Manuel Rosa and André de Oliveira Sampaio that describes in detail a strategy for increasing the visibility and viability of SOA goverance as part of a global enterprise architecture.

And those working with Oracle Fusion applications will want to take advantage of Integration with Fusion Applications, a 54-page sample chapter (PDF, 1.71MB) from the Oracle Fusion Applications Development and Extensibility Handbook (2013, Oracle Press), by by Vladimir Ajvaz, Anil Passi , and Dhaval Metha.

A checklist for OIM go live | Daniel Gralewski
FMW A-Team solution architect Daniel Gralewski's list is intended to complement Oracle Identity Manager. His post "provides tips on a few topics that are not part of the documentation."

YouTube: Oracle Fusion Applications Developer Tips
If you work with Fusion Applications you'll want to check out the tips and tricks for building extensions, customizations, and integrations now available on the new Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer Relations YouTube channel.

The CX Factor: Wooing and wowing customers in the digital age
"There was a time when 'customer experience' was limited to what happened to you when you walked into a store, restaurant, or other place of business or when you called a business on the telephone. But that was back when you could still smoke on airplanes."

Thought for the Day

"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' "

SOA 11g Technology Adapters – ECID Propagation | Greg Mally
"Many SOA Suite 11g deployments include the use of the technology adapters for various activities including integration with FTP, database, and files to name a few," says Oracle Fusion Middleware A-Team member Greg Mally. "Although the integrations with these adapters are easy and feature rich, there can be some challenges from the operations perspective." Greg's post focuses on technical tips for dealing with one of these challenges.